Bridget Carpenter

c/o Val Day
William Morris Agency
1325 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019
(212) 903-1550
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Email: VDay@wma.com
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• UP (THE MAN IN THE FLYING LAWN CHAIR)
• THE FACULTY ROOM
• FALL
• THE DEATH OF THE FATHER OF PSYCHOANALYSIS (and ANNA)
• MR. XMAS
• TINY
• WEST
• THE UGLY DUCKLING
• OED
• VARIATIONS ON A SEX CHANGE
• ROMAN FEVER
• THE RIDE

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UP (THE MAN IN THE FLYING LAWN CHAIR)
Full Length 3M, 3W

Meet Walter Griffin, who made his lawn chair fly sixteen years ago. His son Mikey dreams of greatness, too, and just may achieve it through telemarketing. Philippe Petit walks the high wire and gives council to Walter, who may fly again.

Commissioned by Perseverance Theatre, 2002. AT&T First Stage Grant. Premiere, Perseverance Theatre, 2003.
 

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THE FACULTY ROOM
Full Length 3M, 1W

Carver is the new teacher at Madison-Feurey High School. He’s got a lot to learn. Zoe and Adam, longtime faculty are ready to show him the ropes. A dark, dark comedy; think No Exit in high school with guns.

Commissioned by the Atlantic Theater Company, 2002. Premiere, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival, 2002. Winner of the 2003 Kesselring Award.

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FALL
Full Length 3M, 2W

Lydia, a smart, disaffected 14-year-old is about to fall in love for the first time. At Swing Camp. In a ballroom by the sea.

World Premiere, Trinity Repertory Company (2000). Select production history includes Center Stage and Berkeley Rep. Winner 2000 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

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THE DEATH OF THE FATHER OF PSYCHOANALYSIS (and ANNA)
Full Length 1M, 2W

1939. A sickroom. Anna Freud wears a shaman’s mask at her father’s bedside. A dark and comic meditation on fathers, daughters, and family mythology: sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Staged readings at Lincoln Center Theater’s Directors Lab (1997) and Arena Stage (1999). Productions at Shakespeare & Company (1995 & 1996) and Eye of the Storm (1997).

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MR. XMAS
Full-length Comedy with Music 5M, 4W (doubling)

Porn and Christmas: two of our most enduring American activities. Follow Kannyn Cox, a modern-day Candide in Los Angeles, as he navigates the world of Method acting, Lavender Muff, and the XXXMas dancers. A Yuletide porn musical extravaganza!

Produced by A.S.K. Theatre Workshop, Common Grounds Festival, 1997. Eye of the Storm, 1998

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TINY
One-act Comedy, 60 Minutes 1M, 1W

A foul-mouthed celebrity clown works the room as a children’s game show host on The Monkey Barrel in the City of Angels. Fucked up, scary, funny.

Produced by Clubbed Thumb at HERE (1997); Modern Theatre Glasgow (1991); and Interplay, Australia (1991).

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WEST
One-act Comedy, 30 minutes 2M, 2W (tripling)

Meet Mora Joss, proprietor of the No-Fault Motel located in Fault, California. Her triplet brothers (a cowboy, a screenwriter, and a kick boxer) want her to leave. A craggy stranger says stay. And the earthquake she’s been waiting for might make Fault beachfront property.

Produced as part of “The Cardinal Points,” Hennepin Center for the Arts (1997). Published by Big Sun Publications.
 

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THE UGLY DUCKLING
One-act Children’s Musical, 50 Minutes 4M, 4W (doubling)

Fred, the duck with the Good Personality, goes out into the world and ends with a swan song.

Commissioned by the SteppingStone Theatre (1996)

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OED
One-act Comedy (20 minutes) 1M, 2W

My adaptation of Oedipus. Meet Oed – meet Oed’s Mom (a dead ringer for June Cleaver) – and meet the Nurse, who also plays Oed’s sister, Oed’s teacher, Oed’s high school girlfriend, Oed’s college girlfriend, Oed’s coach, Oed’s dog, Oed’s boss, and Oed’s Id.

Produced by the Playwrights’ Center (1995).

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VARIATIONS ON A SEX CHANGE
One-act Comedy, 15 Minutes 2M, 1W

Like Kafka’s Metamorphosis, but funnier. Lisa wakes up to find that she’s now Bill. Her lover Paul is perturbed; Her lover Amy is perturbed. Two simultaneous realities, twenty-seven scenes, fifteen minutes, one bed.

Produced at Perishable Theatre (1994).

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ROMAN FEVER
One Act, 30 Minutes 2M, 4W

Two middle-aged American women sit on a terrace in Rome, discussing their daughters and the past. Wouldn’t you know: there’s a withheld secret. Adaptation of Edith Wharton’s story.

Jones One Act Commission, The Playwrights’ Center (1996).
 

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THE RIDE
One-act Comedy, 30 minutes 2M, 3W

A love story. The lovers: a dog and his old woman. Sparky and Alice have been on roller coasters across America, and it’s time to go on one last ride.

Produced at Perishable Theatre (1995). Published in Monologues by Women, for Women (1994).